---
title: "Leaning Quad With a Maserati V8? What a Lovely Way to Die"
description: "Don't bother filling out your organ donor card."
date: "2016-03-02"
modified: "2016-03-02"
authors:
  - name: "Brendan McAleer"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/brendan-mcaleer"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/2409/leaning-quad-with-a-maserati-v-8-what-a-lovely-way-to-die"
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  - "Maserati News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "Ducati"
  - "maserati"
  - "motorcycle"
---

# Leaning Quad With a Maserati V8? What a Lovely Way to Die

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Ludovic Lazareth is not the lead singer of a European Black Metal band, but might as well be. Witness his company's flesh-consuming Lazareth LM847, just revealed at this year's Geneva Motor Show, and dominated by a Maserati V8 mounted amidships. Don't bother filling out your organ donor card; crash this thing at speed and you'll just be a medium-sized cloud of pink mist.

This French-Swiss machine is a pretty simple creation at heart. The transmission is a single-speed affair, with twin chain drives for the rear tires. The rear end is lifted from a Ducati Panigale 1299, and the brakes feature huge 8-piston Nissin calipers up front and 4-piston Brembos out back. More a quad than a motorcycle, the four-wheeled LM847 has to be leaned over to turn, if you've got the stones.

![maserati-lazareth-art-1.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/maserati-lazareth-art-1.jpg>)
**Lazareth**

But like the [Viper-engined Dodge Tomahawk](<https://www.allpar.com/cars/concepts/tomahawk.html>), the LM847 is all about the engine. In this case, it's a 32-valve, 4.7-liter Maserati V8, cranking out 470 horsepower and 457 pound-feet. The rider essentially lies atop the intake manifold, feeling the beat of those eight pistons hammering away inside your ribcage as the Italian-made lump screams towards a 7,000-rpm redline. The rider, presumably, is expected to do some of the screaming as well.

![maserati-lazareth-art-2.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/maserati-lazareth-art-2.jpg>)
**Lazareth**

Long and unwieldy though it may be, curb weight for this monstrosity is under 900 pounds, giving it a power-to-weight ratio normally reserved [for the Apollo missions](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/652/project-apollo-from-launchpad-to-the-moon-in-3-minutes>). Unlike a manned Moon mission, however, once you light the candle on the LM847, you're not ever coming back.

![maserati-lazareth-art-3.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/maserati-lazareth-art-3.jpg>)
**Lazareth**

![maserati-lazareth-art-4.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/maserati-lazareth-art-4.jpg>)
**Lazareth**

![maserati-lazareth-art-5.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/maserati-lazareth-art-5.jpg>)
**Lazareth**

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